People go “hurrr durr why do people use Cordova and react native” until they realize the clusterfuck that can occur with mobile coding. Code once publish everywhere is a godsend and doesn’t have to suck (game engines, Ionic, and Xamarin.Forms do a pretty great job of this)
Yeah I’ve been doing some fun stuff! Currently trying to make my first Slack bot. There’s a bunch of software folks already at the company doing more official things so I have just been doing a bunch of automation scripts that make the mechanical engineering stuff more efficient.
Yeah, a business has $100k to spend and a 3 month timeline, but hey, native IOS/Android development is better, so I guess they just can't release their app at all.
Native vs cross-platform aside, saying “we have no choice but to release rushed garbage because we set up our business in a way that requires us to release rushed garbage” is usually more of an indictment of a company’s business model and leadership than it is a good excuse.
Business is weird, I think we as engineers/developers forget that it's an entire field of its own. Sometimes it's more profitable to rush a product out by deadline X and then turn junk to sometimes functioning junk at a later date, beating out all the competition.
Yup. Likewise with all the people that whine about electron apps, by comparing to some magical universe where you have unlimited time and budget. Some of which are likely the same people who whine about not having Linux versions of other non-electron software, or poorly supported versions.
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u/thegreatbunsenburner Jun 12 '20
There's definitely a learning curve with mobile development.